Trump's science advisor is Fox News, and that's why his policies can quickly be undone

By now, the world knows where President Donald Trump stands on the issue of global warming: He’s a climate denier who has appointed the most staunchly anti-environment cabinet in modern American political history.

If fully enacted, his administration’s policies would accelerate global warming, raising sea levels worldwide and wreaking havoc with extreme weather events, likely causing billions in damage to the U.S. alone.

Trump is the only climate denier at the helm of a G-20 nation (though Vladimir Putin has flirted with climate denial in the past). He makes the U.S. scientific establishment so furious that some researchers are ditching academia in favor of the campaign trail to oppose his policies from inside the government. Read more…